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Hype,
bluster and spin
by
Jonathan Matthews
This article on GM food and its regulation
was first published in the magazine Eastern Daily
Press NORFOLK, July 1999
Breaking
the chain
by
Dr Michael Antoniou
Genetic engineering is a world apart from
traditional plant breeding. It's use in food crops is unpredictable,
unstable and dangerous. This article was
first published in LIVING EARTH,
No.197 Jan-March 1998
Beyond
"substantial equivalence"
by
Erik Millstone, Eric Brunner and Sue Mayer
Substantial equivalence is a pseudo-scientific
concept created primarily to provide an excuse for not requiring
biochemical or toxicological tests of
GM foods. This article was first
published in Nature, October 7, 1999
GM
Crops Have Failed
by
Lim Li Ching and Jonathan Matthews
Documenting the failures of GM crops around
the world: Lower yields /Reduced profits/More pesticides
This article was first published in ISIS
NEWS, December 2001
Farmscale
trials: Concerned? You should be.
by
Dr Jeremy Bartlett
A highly
readable briefing on the UK's farmscale trials
Meacher
Meets Scientists
report
by Angela Ryan
Report on a Meeting of Molecular Biologists
called by Michael Meacher
on March 31st 1999 which included among
others Dr Michael Antoniou and Dr Mae-wan Ho
What
is wrong with nature?
by
Dr Ricarda Steinbrecher
Genetic engineers want to transform plants
and animals into designed commodities, ignoring the many hazards.
This article, by a genetic scientist was
first published in Resurgence, No.188 May/June
1998
Terminator
Technology: the threat to world food security
by
Dr Ricarda Steinbrecher and Pat Mooney.
How Terminator works and the extraordinary
threat it poses in return for zero benefit to farmers and consumers.
The following article is taken from The
Ecologist, Vol. 28, No 5. September/October
1998
"We've continued right on with work on the Technology Protection
System [Terminator]. We never really slowed down.
We're on target, moving ahead to commercialize it. We never really
backed off." - Harry Collins, Delta & PineLand Seed Co.
Genetic
reductionism: an interview with Brian Goodwin
by
Dr David King
The following interview
with Professor Brian Goodwin, by the molecular biologist, Dr David King,
is taken from
GenEthics News,
Issue 11. March/April 1996, pp.6-8.
Professor
Brian Goodwin is the author of 'How the Leopard Changed
Its Spots'
Horizontal
gene transfer: a report
by
Dr Mae-wan Ho
The following report by a geneticist and
author of nearly 200 publications covering human biochemical genetics,
molecular genetics, evolution, biophysics, etc. was prepared for
a 1999 court case involving the attempted destruction of a GM sugar beet
trial in Ireland.